Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Top Communist Urges Comrades to Cover for Obamacare, Highlight “Racism”

Sam Webb

NewZealCommunist Party USA chairman Sam Webb
understands how Obamacare could become a huge stumbling block for
Democrats attempting to re-take the House, and state legislatures, in
2014.He’s urging his troops to not allow that to happen, by covering for Obamacare’s glaring flaws and talking racism.He also understands the incredible power of the Tea Party – more I suspect, than they do themselves.

It is amazing how fast momentum can shift in politics. And it usually happens for reasons that could not have been predicted.Case in point: only a month ago, the reckless shutdown of the
federal government left its engineers — the tea party and the Republican
Party — weakened, and the president and Democrats energized and with
the wind at their back.And beyond Washington, the people’s movement in the shutdown’s wake was energized too.But this newly acquired momentum turned out to be far more
momentary than most anticipated, myself included. In fact, it lasted
only a few days. Why? Because Republicans seized the opportunity
provided by the big problems with the rollout of the Affordable Health
Care Act. They were all over it… Literally, overnight the atmosphere changed for the worse. President
Obama and Democrats, rather than riding a wave, found themselves on the
defensive. And the Republicans’ shutdown disaster became a distant
memory.

So stop grumbling comrades, and get back on the attack.

Now, if the health insurance exchanges are running
smoothly by the end of the year, as they appear to be in many states,
much of the furor will die out. But if they aren’t, Obamacare will be
turned by the far right into a metaphor for “broken government” and the
prospects of unseating Republicans in Congress and statehouses next fall
will become problematic.Which means that grumbling about the problems of the
health care rollout heard in some progressive and left circles needs to
give way to actively resisting the right wing’s campaign to kill
Obamacare and regain the initiative leading into the midterm and 2016
elections.

Sam Webb, understands full well that the entire future direction of the country is at stake.

With all its shortcomings, Obamacare is a step in the
right direction; it extends health care – a social right – to millions
who up to now have none, and partially curbs the power of the health
care industry, while its defeat would set back the struggle for health
care for all much longer than I would care to think. That’s why the far
right is fighting it so hard!Thus, energizing, uniting, and raising the understanding of ever
more people to oppose right-wing extremism in every arena of struggle – not least of which is defense of the Affordable Health Care Act – is the order of the day.Of critical importance in this regard is the fight against racism
in its material and ideological forms. Racism was the main vehicle used
to bust up the New Deal coalition and fuel the ascendancy of the right
wing over the past three or more decades. By the same token, the
struggle against it is at the core of building a movement with the
ideological, political, and organizational capacity and unity to
dislodge the right and usher in an era of deep going progressive, even
radical, change.

Sam Webb’s message is clear: Unity on the left, defend Obamacare at
all costs, and play the race card at every conceivable opportunity.Sound familiar folks?Ever wondered where Barack Obama gets his strategies from?